37 attribute fields, profiled from the December 2022 vintage.
Columns in Halifax County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| objectid | OFTInteger | 38.3k | 97, 176, 199 | |
| prn | OFTString | 33.2k | 8341, 32125, 32124 | |
| map | OFTString | 162 | 2376, 2376, 2376 | |
| owner_curr | OFTString | 21.0k | CARR FLORENCE ROBERTS, POINTER ESLESS SCOTT OR, POINTER ESLESS SCOTT OR | |
| co_owner_c | OFTString | 5.0k | SHALUNDA W POINTER, SHALUNDA W, C/O DAWN HURDLE COMPTON | |
| address_li | OFTString | 16.7k | 596 H. C. POWERS RD., 1145 VIR DRIVE, 1145 VIR DRIVE | |
| address__1 | OFTString | 140 | %JOHN POINTER, %JOHN POINTER, JERICHO RESIDENCE | |
| city_state | OFTString | 2.5k | WALLACE NC 28466, ALTON VA 24520, ALTON VA 24520 | |
| parcel_loc | OFTString | 3.6k | 980, 5006, 1145 | |
| parcel_l_1 | OFTString | 1.1k | HUGHES ROAD, NEW HAVEN ROAD, NEW HAVEN ROAD | |
| alternate_ | OFTString | 10.7k | DB871/5, DB871/5, DB394/308 | |
| legal_desc | OFTString | 28.6k | TRACT A-SARAH A. BALL OLIVER LD. DB417/677, LOT B STATE LINE PB11/5 DB871/5, LOT A STATE LINE PB11/5 DB871/5 | |
| district | OFTString | 13 | D8, D8, D8 | |
| user_field | OFTInteger | 2 | 0, 0, 0 | |
| user_fie_1 | OFTString | 14 | 0, 0, 0 | |
| user_fie_2 | OFTString | 25 | 0, 0, 0 | |
| road_numbe | OFTString | 486 | 764, 764, 764 | |
| book_page_ | OFTString | 17.0k | 417/675, 1166/345, 1171/548 | |
| sale_date_ | OFTInteger | 6.4k | 1011977, 11262014, 3102015 | |
| sale_price | OFTInteger | 2.3k | 0, 0, 3000 | |
| vacant_imp | OFTString | 2 | V, V, V | |
| as_code_1 | OFTString | 24 | 200, 200, 200 | |
| as_land_ty | OFTString | 2 | S, S, S | |
| as_descrip | OFTString | 1 | Building, Building, Building | |
| totacres | OFTReal | 5.5k | 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 | |
| as_land_va | OFTInteger | 16.1k | 3675, 6727, 6727 | |
| as_bldg_va | OFTInteger | 15.0k | 0, 0, 0 | |
| as_total_a | OFTInteger | 24.9k | 3675, 6727, 6727 | |
| as_total_1 | OFTInteger | 24.9k | 3675, 6727, 6727 | |
| city | OFTString | 1.3k | WALLACE, ALTON, ALTON | |
| state | OFTString | 49 | NC, VA, VA | |
| zip | OFTString | 2.0k | 28466, 24520, 24520 | |
| disttown | OFTString | 13 | D8, D8, D8 | |
| book_pag_1 | OFTString | 684 | 0/0, 0/0, 0/0 | |
| qualified_ | OFTString | 2 | U, U, U | |
| starea() | OFTReal | 37.4k | 55757.40625, 36529.12890625, 37661.15234375 | |
| stlength() | OFTReal | 37.5k | 1108.67038510806, 811.690221270402, 846.250019764564 |
Why this differs from the next county over
There is no national parcel schema. Every assessor's office built its own, usually decades ago, usually inside whatever CAMA system it bought at the time. One county's owner column is OWNER_NAME, the next one's is own1, and a third splits it across four fields. Shapefile's ten-character DBF limit truncated a generation of them into things like TOTLNDVAL.
Nothing here is renamed or remapped. The columns above are exactly what is in the file, because a normalisation layer that quietly guesses wrong is worse than no normalisation at all — and every guess it makes is one you cannot audit.
The Filled column is the share of rows with a real value. Placeholder text such as n/a counts as empty; a column that is 100% present but 90% placeholder is a column that will disappoint you, and the profiler treats it accordingly.